10 Things Nobody Admits PS3 Did Better Than Xbox 360
5. PS3's Superior CPU
The PS3 remains one of the biggest leaps forward in technological innovation the gaming world has ever seen. Backward compatibility, the best-looking visuals, and sound, and the ability to play HD Blu-Ray DVDs, it was all available on the PS3.
All of these technological leaps forward might have contributed to a ridiculously high price point at launch but, in hindsight, there's room to marvel at just how committed Sony were in reinforcing this as the most powerful video game console ever produced at the time.
In comparison to the Xbox 360's 3.2 GHz IBM PowerPC tri-core, the PS3's CPU was made up of a Cell Broadband Engine that consisted of a 3.2 GHz Power ISA 2.03-based PPE (Power Processing Element) with seven 3.2 GHz SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements).
The PS3 only ever used six of those eight co-processors, but it's still no small feat for a console that was released back in 2006. Put bluntly, it destroyed the 360 when it came to power.
If anything, the PS3's biggest issue was having all this power and not knowing how to use it all effectively. But, it's always better to be overly ambitious and get a bit muddled than keeping things stale.